a written note in a bank account or other financial record of a sum of money owed or spent 借记；借方；收方 on the debit side of an account 账户的借方 - (figurative)
On the debit side (= a negative result will be that) the new shopping centre will increase traffic problems. 负面影响是新购物中心会使交通问题加剧。
a sum of money taken from a bank account 借项 The total debits on the account were £2 000 last month. 上月账户中的借方总额为 2 000 英镑。
opposite credit see also direct debit
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘debt’): from French débit, from Latin debitum ‘something owed’, past participle of debere ‘owe’. The verb sense dates from the 17th cent.; the current noun sense from the late 18th cent.